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African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem

Members of the Hebrew Israelite community protest against deportation orders, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, June 1, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 29, 2025, 11:37 am
Hebrew Israelites celebrate green light for temporary residence, but fight continues
State tells 27 members of southern Israeli community they can apply for 2-year visas, amid legal battle to secure permanent residence for them and dozens more
By Sue Surkes
Members of Israel United in Christ see themselves as being part of God's army. (Screenshot from YouTube/IUICEvents)
November 26, 2022, 6:32 am
How many Hebrew Israelites are there, and how worried should Jews be?
Recent militant posturing of Israel United in Christ, followers of Hebrew Israelite spiritual movement, has alarmed many already on edge from recent attacks, rise in antisemitism
By Andrew Esensten
US Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, on March 22, 2022. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
March 26, 2022, 6:49 pm
In labeling Jackson soft on antisemitism, US conservatives confuse Israelite sects
Supreme Court nominee spoke of a case of Black Israelites that moved her; right-winger mistakenly thought she was speaking of a group sometimes accused of hate
By Ron Kampeas
Members of the Hebrew Israelites Community of Dimona dance during festivities marking the Shavuot festival in the southern Israeli town of Dimona, May 26, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)
September 12, 2021, 9:18 pm
51 members of Hebrew Israelites Community ordered to leave Israel by Sept. 23
Interior Ministry turns down appeals against deportation orders issued in April; recipients, some born in Israel, are demanding legal status, plan to take case to court
By Sue Surkes
Members of the Hebrew Israelites Community of Dimona dance during festivities marking the Shavuot festival in the southern Israeli town of Dimona, May 26, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)
May 16, 2021, 7:22 am
Dimona’s African Hebrews launch campaign to stay put as deportations loom
Population Authority: ‘We’re asking them to go back to their country, one of the most developed in the world, but every few years they come with new people out of the blue’
By Sue Surkes
In this Sunday, May 26, 2013 file photo, members of the Black Hebrews community attend the Shavuot harvest festival in their Village of Peace in the town of Dimona, southern Israel. The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem, as they call themselves, a community of black Americans who left the United States for Israel, believe they are the lost tribe of Judah, exiled from the Holy Land by the Romans in 70 A.D. According to their teachings, their ancestors wandered across North Africa and eventually settled in West Africa, where they were later captured and sold into slavery in the New World. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
April 27, 2021, 12:12 am
African Hebrews say dozens set to be deported from Israel
Spokesman of group says Interior Ministry gave notice to at least 46 families that they must leave country within 60 days despite much of community having permanent residency
By Ilan Ben Zion
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